Hatewatch

In this month’s Sovereign Files, a sovereign was forcibly removed from her car by Florida sheriffs, a drug trafficker committed paper terrorism from his jail cell, and a longtime tax protestor with a predilection for aliens was evaluated as competent, rather than crazy.

Hyatt will no longer rent space to hate groups, according to a new policy unveiled by the international hotel chain. In a statement Thursday, Hyatt CEO Mark Hoplamazian outlined the new policy, saying: “If a group is primarily focused on disparaging a group by virtue of their identity … that’s really where we need to draw the line. We’re going to apply our values to making these decisions along the way.”

The president of the neo-Confederate League of the South announced last month that the League was quitting its campaign of public rallies and abandoning its failed alliance with the neo-Nazis of the Nationalist Front (NF). Less than a month later, however, the aging Hill abandoned the new policy and announced the League’s upcoming rally on Sept. 29, 2018, in Elizabethton, Tennessee, a rally that has now been canceled.

On Sept. 11, 2018, an overwhelming majority of Romanian senators voted to rewrite the constitutional definition of a family in a move that will potentially prohibit the legalization of same-sex marriage (107-13, with seven abstentions).